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by William L White and colleagues: These peer-based recovery support roles go by various titles: recovery coaches, recovery mentors, personal recovery assistants, recovery support specialists, and peer specialists. Complex ethical and legal issues are arising within the performance of these roles for which little guidance can be found within the existing literature [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]
As part of the Narrative Research Project we interviewed 64 people across Scotland about their experience of recovery from long term mental health problems. From those interviews SRN worked with participants to create anonymous stories which we have then shared in the booklet Journeys of Recovery (10.39 MB) and via the website [Scottish Recovery Network]
Compelling evidence demonstrates that services can deliver better outcomes if shaped by users themselves. In particular evidence from adult social care services shows that individual budgets – schemes for self-directed support, centred on personal budgets – show improved outcomes [RSA, UK]
The Basement Project is an independent self-help organisation, based in Halifax, West Yorkshire that offers support and inspiration to those people who are involved with alcohol and / or substance misuse, the opportunity of a new sustained abstinent lifestyle [The Basement Project, UK]
The RSA launches Citizen Power: Peterborough, an innovative partnership that aims to create active citizenship within Peterborough so that local people feel engaged with their community and can help to shape the city in which they live [RSA, UK]
Thank you so much for all the wonderful comments you left on my last post. I have dipped in to read them, though it’s been a hectic ten days since I last wrote [Alcoholic Daze, UK]
Thinking of Michael my heart is aching and it is still difficult to believe that I will not see him again and, unfortunately, unlike the spring bulbs he will not burst through the ground and bloom again. But I hope that I will be able to start to move on in my life. I doubt if I will ever burst anywhere but I would like to ‘bloom again’ – just little steps as my friends would say [Susan C, Wired In]
I recently attended a two-day course on EmoTrance. I was initially sceptical, as it seemed to resemble some of the other approaches I am familiar with (e.g. self-hypnosis) but appeared too easy, too simplistic. But after the two days I was impressed with the results I was getting myself, and by observing others I could also see how they were benefiting [Masha Bennett, Wired In]
Now I’ve described these events as mutual appreciation societies with much back slapping to be witnessed. I cannot tell you how pleasantly surprised I was by the whole event. There was an energy in the room with an enthusiastic commitment [Tony A, WIred In]
Road safety charity Brake and Direct Line today reveal an overwhelming cry from the British public for Government action to curb the menace of drink and drug driving [Brake, UK]
Czech pot smokers have breathed a sigh of relief after the government clarified a law on drug use, turning the country into one of Europe’s safest havens for casual drug users [Google News]
Policymakers and other stakeholders can use cost-benefit analysis as an informative tool for decision making for substance abuse prevention. This report reveals the importance of supporting effective prevention programs as part of a comprehensive substance abuse prevention strategy [SAMHSA, USA]
This report was commissioned in order to provide detailed country profiles relating to alcohol and other drug issues. In addition, a regional overview has been prepared to highlight where existing regional mechanisms may be, and already have been, employed to address these issues [Australian National Council on Drugs]
The report provides considered recommendations for framing appropriate responses coordinated at the regional level, via regional and international coordinating mechanisms and donors [Australian National Council on Drugs]
Victoria’s highest court has invoked the state’s Charter of Human Rights to send a law back to Parliament on the grounds that it breaches the rights of citizens [ABC News, Australia]
They propose another factor – centered on the addict’s sense of identity or self – that distinguishes successful attempts from unsuccessful attempts at stopping drug use [Wired In]
